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I am so ready for spring. We never got a big snow, so I was disappointed. If it isn't going to snow, then give me warm weather. Over the wknd, it was 70 here. But, now rainy and cold again. It is suppose to warm again by this wknd, but suppose to get tons of rain.

Last year, it seemed like we didn't have much a winter. We got so many landscaping projects done, because we had great weather beginning in February last year. It is often hard to get much done, because we usually have a month of good weather before the heat hits.

Our average temp now is 55 degrees F. Sunset is 7:47pm tomorrow. We are on the very tail end of Eastern, so ya'll on the east coast had your sunset 30-40 mins earlier. I lost track of time tonight, because it was still light out.

started my tomato seeds last week.i only plant a few.LOVE fresh home grown organic produce. after many years, i have whittled the choice down to my 2 favorites."Brandywine" (heirloom variety, large, juicy, flavorful, YUM) and oddly enough,i salvage seeds from the "Compari" tomatoes that i buy from the grocery store.they average about 1 1/2" in diameter, have great flavor, and best of all they start producing early and heavy.(usually get about 150-200 tomatoes from ONE plant!)think i may need to put a light on the seedlings now to keep them from getting too spindly.this spring has been SO slow in coming!

Oh...i was outside the past 2 days doing a bit of pruning on the Japanese pussy willows.they are beautiful.very twisty-turny contorted.i will need to post a pic for you to see.

City living limits your ability to grow your own.understood.I just HATE paying $3.00 for ONE good heirloom tomato.I also like going out to my back yard, a mere 50 fifty feety from my house to pluck a juicy tomato off of the vine as needed.

The weather here in South Florida is getting a little bit warmer - guess I can put a way the heavy coat and turn the heat off

we spent a 9 days last year at this time in Ft. Laudy.it was great for the most part. (car got towed .)geez, those parking lot patrol nazi's are awful. (at Alibis)maybe next year we will return.this weather sucks in March.

The weather here in South Florida is getting a little bit warmer - guess I can put a way the heavy coat and turn the heat off

We were there last February-- South Beach and Key West. Been down every winter, since 2009. Didn't make it this year. It turned out okay, because the week we were planning to go, it was lousy weather down there. Brian's spring break at school is the first week of April. This weekend, we've been looking at flights. We actually found some cheap ones at this late date. $120 down and $85 back. Since we didn't make a decision, I am sure those are gone. Probably have to wait until next year. We wanted to check out more of Ft. Lauderdale. Some of you said it was actually much better than Sobe.

Weather has been great this weekend... Today is supposed to reach the upper-80s with a bit of a wind to cool it down....

Also, Hollywood Beach is a lot more of a "down-to-earth" beach scene than SoBe - it isn't as pretentious - Great place to hang out and walk on the Beachwalk and take in the sites...A few good bars - O'Malley's, Ocean Alley....

But Wilton Manors has the Manor, Bill's Filling Station, Atomic Boom, Georgie's, Rosie's, Scandel, and a bunch of other bars/hangouts, plus a lot of gay-run and gay-friendly Bed and Breakfast places.

SoBe is nice to go to once in a while - but tends to be touristy, lots of traffic, horrible parking, more expensive, pretentious... and only has three real gay bars/clubs: Twist, Palace, and Score.... although, there are some great restaurants (especially on Lincoln Road).

If I were coming for a visit - I would plan to make Wilton Manors my central location with a day/night trip to SoBe and a 1/2 day or day trip to Hollywood Beach and Haulover Beach - with the rest of the time spent in the Manors.

And most of the bars in Wilton Manors have 2-4-1 Monday-Friday from 1 pm - 9 pm... Plus Georgie's and Rosie's both have some pretty good food choices (albeit only a step up from "bar food.")

I prefer pretentious because obviously that means that the men are better looking, which is why I never went to Fort Methdale unless it was to use the airport.

True - the men in SoBe do tend to be better looking - higher maintenance, but definitely better looking...

I prefer "truth-in-lending" - at least in Fort Lauderdale (particularly Wilton Manors) WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)... Nothing worse then getting w/ a high maintenance, pretentious guy who looks good in the darkened venue so often seen in SoBe and waking up the next morning to have the pa-heebie jeebies scared out of you. (before he puts his make-up on - I'm thinking Arnold in Torchsong Trilogy).

Oh, and I just saw a picture on facebook of snow near Roanoke, VA and they easily have 8 inches of accumulated wet snow already. I still think that I will only see rain (it's 48F right now) but who knows.